鈥淚f you kill a tiger, you can buy a motorbike.鈥�
Anonymous hunter in Laos, on the money to be made selling tiger pelts to the Chinese market (The Independent, London, 13 June)
鈥淭he men are usually very surprised, but the babies seem content.鈥�
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Former president of the UK鈥檚 Royal College of Midwives Caroline Flint, on babies that suck on their father鈥檚 nipples when being cuddled (The Times, London, 13 June)
鈥淚n a recent case, we found the [missing] data on a former employee鈥檚 iPod.鈥�
Paul Carratu, president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, based in Austin, Texas, on how people are using their Apple iPods to steal information from computers at work (The Guardian, London, 14 June)
鈥淲e either plan another series of cocktail parties to watch the asteroid go by, or we mount the most important space mission in human history.鈥�
Apollo 9 lunar module pilot Russell Schweickart on putting a radio transponder on asteroid 2004 MN4 to track its orbit. He has calculated that the asteroid could collide with Earth in 2036 (San Francisco Chronicle, 13 June)
鈥淚t is clear that the long-term benefits of [carbon] capture and storage, which could reduce emissions from power plants by up to 85 per cent, merit significant investment now.鈥�
The UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks announcing 拢40 million funding to develop technologies to capture carbon dioxide from power plants and store it in depleted North Sea oil and gas fields (The Independent, London, 14 June)